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August 2003, Troop 21 atop 11,711 ft. Mt. Phillips near Cimarron, New Mexico left to right from top: Gary McGraw, Murry Sill, Gabriel Puerto Sr., Ed Cox Sr., Gary Cohen, Bob Brennan, Louis Brennan, Derek Stilmann, Tony Crimmins, Marlin Sill, Tony Cohen, John McGraw, Ian Duffy, Gabriel Puerto Jr., Edward Cox, Bobby Brennan |
We're Troop
21 located in Coconut Grove, Florida. Our sponsoring institution is Plymouth Congregational Church, located at 3400 Devon Road, just off of Main Highway. We meet at Plymouth every Monday night at 7pm, and we welcome you to attend. We include boys from eleven years old to eighteen years, and are divided into patrols of about five or six Scouts each. We participate in Council events such as the Lincoln-Marti Camporee, the King Mango Strut Parade, and the annual Old Cutler 13 Mile Hike, as well as enjoying Troop events such as campouts, and wilderness canoe trips. A few summers back, we headed to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico and hiked over 65 miles in a ten day backpacking trek at elevations of 10,000 ft and more! The other half of our Troop went to Camp Daniel Boone in North Carolina and shot the rapids of the Nantahala River! Troop 21 knows how to have fun, while building young men of character... Come on and join us! |
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Troop 21... the Troop that loves to hurl !!! Enamored with all things medieval, Troop 21 loves hurling projectiles... from flinging arrows at the Everglades Archers range in Homestead to launching water balloons via one of our two custom-lashed catapults shown here at the Coral Gables Youth Center. These catapults were the hit of the show at the Tequesta District Scout Recruiting Day where we held a full scale balloon barrage, our siege engines firing over 100 water balloons at each other! Troop 21 likes to give traditional Scouting skills, such as lashing, a bit of an edge to make them more interesting. What's more "interesting" than a water-filled balloon being hurled at your nogin?
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Rubber Bear
for dinner tonight! Yummm!
3D Archery is one of the many fun skills that our Scouts are exposed to. (That's not a real bear, he just plays one on the archery range.) 3D Archery is set up like a golf course through the woods, with each "hole" having a tee from which you shoot a three dimensional foam animal target placed at varying distances down each lane. Troop 21 maintains it's own sets of fine bows and arrows, and we practice often at our weekly meetings. (No endangered species of foam animals of course.) A special thanks is offered up to the Everglades Archers who have allowed us to utilize their various types of archery ranges to hone our skills. |
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Stone Crab
for Dinner Tonight! Even Yummmier!
Troop 21 eats better than any other Scout Troop we know of. Here we are at the Sebring Historic Car Races, camping on the infield, preparing stone crab! All of our Scouts learn to cook. Chicks dig guys who can cook...
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Trap Shooting
at Camp Tonah-Keeta, Jupiter, FL
"That clay pigeon blowed-up real good!" Scouts of Troop 21 are no strangers to being taught responsible behavior. With that responsibility comes the reward of participating in more adult-like activities. Our Scouts, under strong supervision and observing all necessary safety precautions, have learned to safely handle shotguns and worked toward earning the very difficult Shotgun Shooting Merit Badge. This is no easy task. The boys not only learn how to handle and respect firearms, but they've got to be pretty darn good shots too! The best thing about shooting clay pigeons... no bones! |
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Yipes!
Snipes! Troop 21 has a long tradition of snipe hunting. With its myriad of pathways and snipe runs through the palmetto scrub, Camp Tonah-Keeta is our favorite hunting ground. These seldom seen terrestrial (flightless) birds come out only at night and only with much coaxing from our group of experienced "brush beaters" who scare them out of the bushes and down the dark trails where our "bagmen" await them with open pillowcases illuminated by a flashlight! Why do we do it? For the love of the hunt of course. Come camping with Troop 21 and we'll see that you participate in a Snipe Hunt on your very first campout! Upcoming 2008 Activities:
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